At twilight, the illuminated fountains of the newly completed National World War II Memorial, in the Washington, District of Columbia, frame a slab inscribed with, "Here in the presence of Washington and Lincoln. One the eighteenth century father and the other the nineteenth century preserver of our nation. We honor those twentieth century Americans who took up the struggle during the second world war and made the sacrifices to perpetuate the gift our forefathers entrusted to us a nation conceived in liberty and justice." This memorial honors all the military veterans of World War II